Vintage Archtop Acoustic and Electric Guitars

The archtop is a class of steel-stringed guitar, acoustic or electric, with an arched top similar to a violin’s. Often sporting a pair of f-holes instead of a single, round sound hole, archtops were popular with jazz, blues, and country musicians, and are widely associated with music of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.
Gibson is considered the inventor of the archtop guitar, if not the archtop stringed instrument, which, of course, goes back...Continue Reading